Chapter 185： roof beams

Chapter 185 Building a house with beams

The house that Xu Chenghou and his wife had their eyes on was not small.

I also know that Xu Shixian built three rooms there in his previous life, and later Xu Shiyan built three rooms next to each other. Can the space be small?

That's why Xu Shiyan meant that the left and right sides were busy for a while, and there was no difference between the one and a half rooms, so he simply built five rooms and occupied the space.

Xu Chenghou and his wife were hesitant at first. If they built five brick and tile houses, all of them would cost seven to eight hundred yuan, which was not enough for the family.

Xu Shiyan said, if it doesn’t work, he will help the mat first, and when the four brothers come back, let them pay a share.

Xu Chenghou thought about it, and felt that since he was busy, he might as well build a bigger one.

The parents want to build five houses over there, and Xu Shiyan also plans to build five brick houses on the west side of the house.

Calculated in this way, the two ends add up to ten houses, and a lot of materials are required, and the labor is also quite worrying.

Now it’s not like in the big house before, the five brothers are all together, and they can do a lot of work by themselves, and find helpers for the rest.

If these ten houses are all directed to helpers, it will be overwhelmed.

So Xu Shiyan was so cruel that he found Guo Shouye and asked him to help find the construction team of the Forestry Bureau, that is, Lin Jian.

Directly contracted the ten houses of the Xu family to Lin Jian Construction. They are professionals, and their work is much better than that of helpers who are found casually.

Anyway, the labor is a bit more expensive, but there is a reason why it is expensive. The quality of the house built by a professional construction team is also guaranteed.

It would be impossible for someone else to do this.

Lin Jian is a public unit, and he only does business for the public, so how can he build a house for an individual?

But if it was Guo Shouye, there would be no problem. A few cigarettes and a few bottles of deer antler blood wine.

Lin Jian took over the private work of the Xu family by taking the opportunity of building a public house for a certain forest farm.

Anyway, Lin Jian has plenty of workers, so it is right to treat him as a big guy to earn extra money.

The leaders at the top turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, and the workers at the bottom get benefits, so what else is there not to like?

Bricklayers and carpenters are all included, as well as the kang, stove, and inner and outer walls. It’s just that the wages are a bit more expensive, but it’s worry-free.

After the materials are ready, Xu Shiyan doesn't have to worry about it. Only on the day of the beam-raising, he has to find some helpers to take care of the meal, and Xu Shiyan doesn't need to take care of the rest.

Xu Shiyan really had no other choice, his father was watching ginseng on the mountain, and the two brothers were too busy to spare time.

Not to mention the two younger brothers, one teaches and the other goes to school, who can come to work?

Let's not talk about work, there are not even people who follow Zhang Luo, all have to point to Xu Shiyan alone.

He doesn't have eight hands, how can he do it?

It's the best way to contract everything out. As long as the work is handed over before autumn, the old couple can move in this year. I really can't care about the rest.

In this way, on June 6th, the 12th day of the fifth lunar month, two houses broke ground and began to dig the foundation.

At the same time, carpenters also began to make beams, doors and windows, etc.

Part of the carpentry materials were brought in from the big house.

After all, the Xu family has been in the Northeast for so many years. They have saved nothing but wood.

The other part is the wood that Xu Shiyan put on the mountain last autumn and winter.

The wood was skinned at that time, and after a winter and a spring, it was almost dry.

A few days ago, I found a car and pulled it down, and it was suitable for making beams, purlins, shed poles and so on.

After working for many days, I finally settled the matter of the house. All the materials were ready, and the carpenters and bricklayers arranged it by themselves.

At home, Zhou Guilan and Su Anying are responsible for boiling water and hot meals for the workers, trying to take care of them as much as possible.

Just like that, the Xu family’s house was built up slowly and orderly.

Xu Shiyan is busy with fertilizing in the team and building a house at home. Whether it is Niu Mao Guang or Gastrodia elata this year, there is no time for it.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyan took the time to go to the county and sold all the twenty or so dried velvet antlers.

The best velvet antler costs 38 yuan a tael, and each piece of dried velvet antler is about two and a half to three taels, and you can buy about a hundred.

In the end, I got more than 2,400 yuan, which was more than enough to build a house.

It was late July, when Xu Shixiang came back from Tonghua.

With the addition of the fifth helper, Xu Shiyan was immediately relieved, at least someone was watching over the house, so he could free up his hands and work on the ground.

On July 26th, the third day of the sixth lunar month, Xu’s house was erected.

Xu Shixian and Xu Shian both asked for leave, and Xu Shide came here after the summer vacation, and has been helping here.

Not only the Xu family brothers, but also Zhou Guilan's natal nephews, nephews, and relatives living in Daying, such as Su Weizhong and Su Weicheng, also came to help.

Xu Shiyan's job in Donggang Commune is not bad, and he has a lot of people. The apprentices he brought, when they learned that Xu's house was going to be erected, they all came to help.

Even Han Limin, I don't know how I heard about it, so he came here specially.

Thanks to the large number of people, there are a total of ten houses on both sides, all of which have to be erected, and the lack of manpower is really not enough.

Therefore, the manpower was divided into two groups, each led by carpenters and bricklayers, and began to work.

Liang Tuan had already made it, and the main beam in the middle was tied with red cloth strips and copper coins.

Xu Shide wrote two couplets of Shangliang Daji in advance and pasted them on the brick wall.

Someone was standing on top of a shelf with a bunch of firecrackers in his hand, and another person was holding a small basket with candies in it.

The carpenter directed the people to hoist the main beam in the middle to the roof, and then used various tools to correct the direction and fix the position.

At the same time, someone lit firecrackers.

There was a crackling sound, accompanied by red confetti flying all over the sky, and the air was full of the smell of burning sulfur.

The person carrying the basket sprinkled sugar down in handfuls, and a group of children below came to grab it.

Building a house and erecting beams is also a major event. The picture is a festive and lively one. No one would think that the children are making trouble, and they all laugh and watch them grab candy.

Some people will go to the basket to grab another handful and distribute it to the children who didn't grab it.

The main girder is fixed, and then the other girders are also lifted up to find the correct direction and position, and then nailed obliquely with wooden poles or boards, also called dalazi.

The beams and towers are all fixed, and then the purlins, eight boards, shed poles, and shed boards are nailed.

The Xu family built a brick-and-tiled house with a new structure, with tiles on the top and white ash sheds on the bottom.

In order to keep warm, a mixture of yellow mud and sawdust was pasted on the shed board, and then covered with a thick layer of sawdust.

In this way, the workload will be much larger, and fortunately there are so many people to help.

Everyone divided labor and cooperated according to the requirements of the foreman, each doing their own work, in an orderly manner, without any chaos, and the progress was very fast.

By one o'clock at noon, all the tiles were hung, and the shed mud and sawdust were all pressed.

According to the rules, on the day of raising the beam, the host will prepare a sumptuous feast for the helpers.

For today's meal, Xu Shiyan also spent a lot of thought.

Xu Shiqin had saved up the meat tickets for several months, plus the tickets given by Guo Shouye, and gave them to Xu Shixiang.

I searched for meat in Songjianghe and various non-staple food stores in the county one day in advance, and I bought a lot of people who didn't need a ticket.

In addition, there is everything in the vegetable garden this season, so this meal is very rich.

(end of this chapter)